Classics with Cake: Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
With Steve Coogan's enormously successful theatrical reboot conquering the West End, and coming to NCC in April thanks to NT Live, now is as good a time as any to revisit maestro Kubrick's original 1964 Kubrick pitch black satire. This multi-Peter Sellers-starring comedy still holds rep with many in the know as one of the funniest films of all time. Kubrick originally intended a straight adaptation of Peter George’s novel Red Alert, a chilling thriller about a paranoid American general initiating a nuclear bombing mission over the USSR. But Kubrick saw the absurdity behind the retaliatory strategy of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) and decided to film it as a comedy. In an acting tour de force, Sellers plays the British officer attempting to apprehend the psychotic general (Sterling Hayden), the US President trying to smooth things over with his Soviet opposite number, and the eccentric Dr Strangelove, a German émigré scientist with an autonomous Nazi arm and wild ideas about the post-apocalyptic world. Iconic & then some - a rare Big Screening.
£7.50 Includes Tea/Coffee & Cake !
1964 / PG / 1h 35min / Dark Comedy